Chapter Ninety-Four: The Role of National Football Prestige

After nearly eight months of fierce competition, the "Prato Cup" National Junior Football Championship held the round of 16 finals in BJ, and the final competition for the championship was BJ Junior Team and LN Junior Team. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The players in this competition are mainly 79~80 years, although they are not as talented as the Jianlibao players in the 77~78 age group, but there are also some very potential players, such as the goalkeeper Liu Yunfei of the TJ Junior Team, the striker Li Yi, the fullback Xu Yunlong of the BJ Junior Team, the midfielder Zhao Junzhe of the LN Junior Team and so on. But what really made Chen Lin pay special attention to the other two people hidden in Mingzhu - Zheng Zhi and Shao Jiayi.

However, while Chen Lin watched the still fierce final on the field, he recalled the situation of checking the computer last night, and his emotions could not be stabilized.

At the beginning, before the future data of Nian Brain disappeared, he clearly checked the data of those famous players in the future, and even copied them down for fear of forgetting. He clearly remembers that the PA value of the two reached 148, which is only lower than Sun Chenghai's potential value of 149 among Chinese players in the future, which can be called amazing. Later, as Chen Lin's computer data changed, the data of the current season could only be displayed at the beginning of each season, and only players over the age of 14 could display it, and the names of the two disappeared from the computer database until this season.

However, the re-brushed 94/95 season player data, the PA value of the two changed together, reaching 150 points. Don't underestimate these two potential changes, many Jianlibao players can't increase their PA value by two points after training hard in Prato for a year.

What contributed to this change in theirs, and Chen Lin found that not only the two of them, but even Liu Yunfei, Li Yi, Xu Yunlong, Zhao Junzhe and others had increased their PA values by 2 points compared to what he had recorded. He doesn't believe it's because of the Prato Junior Championship, because before that, there had been similar national junior competitions in China, but they became the Prato title, and the selected players could go to Prato to train, but the process was a change of soup.

At this time, Chen Lin suddenly thought of the national football prestige that he had never studied to have any effect. According to the explanation in the computer game, the increase in the popularity of national football means that the country's citizens have increased their participation in football, their enthusiasm for football, their investment in football, and the proportion of young people who choose football as their interest...... In short, there are more people watching football, more people playing football, more people investing in the football industry, and more people engaged in football-related industries, but it is not said at all what the specific role is and what data is reflected in it. Is it what it does to increase the potential of the "calf"?

If winning the third place in the World Junior Championships can increase these "calves" by 2 points, then what if the World Junior Championships achieve good results? What if we make it to the World Cup? What if you make it to the World Cup for several consecutive years? What if you win the World Cup...... Well, this one is a little too far away.

In fact, this is very understandable, this so-called national football prestige is actually a country's football heritage. Why Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, these countries football geniuses emerge in an endless stream, like cutting leeks, cutting a stubble and growing a stubble, is the reason for the football heritage. Otherwise, the DNA of Chinese children is so much worse than that of the children of these football powerhouses? Just as an uncle picking up scrap in the slums of Brazil may have played a good game, and many Brazilian players have parents and brothers who are football practitioners, Chinese players have been exposed to different environments from birth. Those Brazilian and Argentine players may have been brought to the stadium by their parents since they were born to watch football, from the moment they can walk, they have all kinds of relatives and friends performing all kinds of football juggling in front of him, from the time they can run, they have a large group of children of the same age chasing a football together, from the time they enter the school, they may have a retired professional player as their enlightenment coach, and they have faced a large number of opponents of the same age since they were teenagers, how can such a starting point be the same as that of Chinese players?

But isn't that the meaning of the opportunity God gave him two years ago? One day, Chinese football will definitely rise.

In the final of the "Prato Cup" National Youth Football Championship, the BJ Junior Team finally defeated the LN Junior Team with a wonderful free kick from Shao Jiayi, and the BJ team also became the biggest winner of this competition, with a total of five players getting the opportunity to go to Prato for training.

Since Chinese football has begun to be professionalized, it is impossible to take advantage of it like the Jianlibao team, like Shao Jiayi, Zheng Zhi and others are almost the main force of the youth echelon of each A club. Therefore, Chen Lin signed an agreement with the Chinese Football Association and domestic clubs on behalf of the Prato club, agreeing that the young players who go to Prato for training will be owned by both parties, and if the player is selected for the first team of Prato at the age of 18, Prato will pay a compensation fee, and if he is not selected, the player's original club can pay a certain amount of money to buy back all his ownership.

This model has been affirmed by various clubs, and the progress of the Jianlibao team in Prato for more than a year has been seen by many insiders in China. Compared with foreign players who are expensive and can only play 3 players, the strong "domestic aid" is what clubs are striving for.

This time, like the previous batch of Jianlibao players, 22 young players were also selected to go to Italy. Prato is only a team after all, you can't keep all these players, most of them will definitely return to China, so after Prato's training, the strength will definitely increase greatly, but the price is relatively cheap, how can you make the clubs not impressed. Therefore, for the sake of these 22 places, the clubs also broke their heads, entrusted relationships, found doors, and even directly instigated the parents of the players to stuff money into the Prato club staff.

In this regard, Chen Lin specially instructed Chen Changxin to be fair and just, never show favoritism, and dismiss all insiders who are found to have accepted bribes, and even do not rule out the initiation of judicial proceedings. To this end, he also deliberately selected several Italian coaches from Pitini's youth department for final review and resolutely put an end to fraud.

The Prato team's trip to China was an unprecedented success, with nearly 150,000 viewers attending the three matches with Guoan, Shenhua and Hongyuan, and each game was broadcast by CCTV, with overwhelming ratings. Everywhere they went, the Prato players were greeted by the local people, and in Guangzhou, Prato was even welcomed by the students in a flower procession, and local officials from all over the country also came forward to warmly welcome the Prato club members. This is of course inseparable from the influence that Prato has carefully created in China in the past two years, and it is also due to the fame of the football king Maradona and a number of World Cup stars.

On August 9th, Prato and his team took 22 young Chinese players on a flight back to Italy, where they will have their first major championship match of the season at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome five days later.